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Para leer en este 2014

In honor of #readwomen2014 – an effort to equalize the gender imbalance in our collective reading habits – here are 14 fantastic, timeless reads by women:

Joan Didion on self-respect

Susan Sontag on photography as aesthetic consumerism and a form of modern violence

Virginia Woolf on the creative benefits of keeping a diary

Annie Dillard on presence over productivity

Helen Keller on optimism

Alexandra Horowitz on the blinders of attention

Anaïs Nin on why emotional excess is essential to creativity

Hannah Arendt on how bureaucracy fuels violence

Jennifer Finney Boylan on what it’s like to be a transgender parent

Anissa Ramirez on saving science education

Jeanette Winterson on adoption and how we use storytelling to save ourselves

Dani Shapiro on the pleasures and perils of the creative life

Virginia Woolf on how to read a book

Susan Sontag on literature and freedom

Artwork above by Joanna Walsh

The Evolution of Western Dance Music

An Interactive Graphic Showing The Evolution of Western Dance Music Over The Last 100 Years in Under 20 seconds

¡Es una representación estupenda!

La perfecta belleza de un mundo no tan perfecto

Así es!

Calvin and Hobbes

No puedo dejar de verlo!

We have social practices in relation to which we are in a situation much like that of the Greeks with slavery. We recognise arbitrary and brutal ways in which people are handled by society, ways that are conditioned, often, by no more than exposure to luck. We have the intellectual resources to regard the situations of these people, and the systems that allow these things, as unjust, but are uncertain whether to do so, partly because we have seen the corruption and collapse of supposedly alternative systems, partly because we have no settled opinion on the question . . . how far the existence of a worthwhile life for some people involves the imposition of suffering on others.

Bernard Williams, Shame and Necessity (p. 125)

Para motivar: Klimt y un beso

They teach us to prey forgiveness But I won"t swallow what they feed us

¿Qué hemos hecho...?

In explaining any human shortcoming, the first tool I reach for is Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

S. Pinker The Sense of Style...